Users with high enough karma can also vouch for flagged posts, though anything involving politics will usually get mass flagged as soon as anyone does that.
I mean I sort of get it. HN isn't really the place for discussing this (ref. HN Guidelines[1]), and judging by the past two weeks, the Trump administration will do something as discussion-worthy as this at least every day for the next 4 years.
If each such instance gets a thread here, it will be pretty bad for Hacker News, an Eternal September-like event.
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Look at the comments. They’re entirely just someone writing out their political stance / generic outrage. It’s boring and worthless. Or it’s people mentioning the same evil dictator that that they always do that died 75 years ago.
